inter-asteroid impacts

Exploring impact vapor plume reactions from asteroidal impacts: Monte Carlo simulations and implications for biomolecules synthesisOPEN ACCESS

30/07/2025 13:41 · by karmaka · in amino acids, asteroid, CI, Earth, EL, impact / impact-structures, LL, organic matter

Yoko Ochiai, Shigeru Ida , Daigo Shoji IcarusAvailable online 29 July 2025, 116736 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “During a hypervelocity impact, both the impactor and target materials evaporate, generating an impact vapor plume…

Impact-driven oxidation of organics explains chondrite shock metamorphism dichotomyOPEN ACCESS

24/04/2025 18:22 · by karmaka · in carbonaceous chondrite, Ceres, ordinary chondrite, organic matter, shock metamorphism

Kosuke Kurosawa, Gareth S. Collins, Thomas M. Davison, Takaya Okamoto, Ko Ishibashi & Takafumi Matsui Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number: 3608 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Shocked meteorites can be used to probe the…

Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions I: An analogue for low porosity targets

11/12/2015 07:05 · by karmaka · in asteroid, impact / impact-structures, surface

C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, P. Ioannidis, M.J. Cole PDF (full text) abstract “Recent observations of asteroidal surfaces indicate the presence of materials that do not match the bulk lithology of the body. A…